West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-09-15
CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
DIR. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON.
Some Of the Special Rights Which BE.
long 10 True MOmanhood.

Text: "TheTs dTs 1res-Soore o,.ee,, ~
solomons Song, Vi, s.
80 solomon, by ono stroke, set forth tb,
imperial character Of a true Christian woman.
orli;I - noI slave, not hireling, not a sub
oIdlnatei but queen; and in my text Solo
mon sees sixty OF these helping 10 make I'M
the royal pageant of Jesus. In n former ssaT
mon showed you that crown and courtI0
attendants and imperial wardrobe were not
necessary To make a queen; but that SrAoes
oil tho heart and life will eiy,e ,S,tonat{ ION "a
any woman. showed you at some Iengtb
mat woman's position was higher In tho world
than mans, and that although she had often
III IN ueiled the right Of suffrage she aiwaya
ulu Vote and always would vote by her inhu-
ehce' ana that her chief deSire ought TO be-
that she should have grace rightly 10 rule i'm
INC DOMINION which she has already won. /
ocsah AN enumeration OF some OF her rights,
ana TINS morning resume the subject
IN inc tfSt place, woman has the special
ana the superlative right-not again going
Dack 10 what L have already said-voman
mas thespecial and speculative right of bIess-
ing and comforting the sick
What land, what street what bousa ho,
not felt the smitngs of disease3 Tons of
thousands of sick bedsl What shall we do
with theme Shall man, with hisrough hand
ana ana clumsy foot, go stumbling around the
sick room, trying to soothe tho distracted
nerves and alleviate the pains of the tossina
patent The young man at college may
scoii at the idea of being under natarnal in
nuences, but at the first blast of the typhoid
Ievsr on ms cheek he says: Where Ia
motnerf walter Scott wrote partly GA
satire and partly in compliment when he said:
woman, In our hours OF ease.
uncorthln, coy and hard TO please
WnJu pam and anguish wiring the brow,
mlnstering angel thou.
l think the most pathetic passage I'm oII tba
blble Is the description of the lad who went
out to the harvest field of Shunem and COT
SuhStruck-throwing his hands ON his temples
anu crying out " Oh, my head my head ~
and they said Garry him TO his mother y
And then the record is: "He sat ON her knecs
I'll noon, and then died. IL Is an awful
tmng TO be Ill away from home i'm n strange
hotel, once in while men coming i'm TO LOOK
at you, holding their hand over their mouth
Ior rear they VIII catch the contagion. How
roughly they turn you in bed How loudly
Iney talk. How you long for the ministries
OF nome. 4 know one such who went awav
lroIh one OF the brightest of homes for
several weeks business absence at the West
telegram came at midnight that he was
OH MS ueath bed, far away from home. By
express train the wife and DAUGHTERS wont
westward; but they went too late. He feared
i ho' 70 ule, but he was in agony TO live until
ms Iamlly got there. He tried TO bribe
the doctor to make him live a little
while longer. He said 81 am willing In dio
but not alone But the pulses fluttered. the
eyes closed, and the heart stopped. The ex
press trains met in the midnight. yvife nnd
daughters going westward remains
Oh husband and father coming eastward o.
was a sad, pitiful, overwhelmin9
Spectaclel When we are sick we want
10 10 DO back at home. When the
Liihe comes Tor us to die, we want 10
die at home. The room may be very
humble, and the faces that look into
ours may be very plain; but who cares for
thaJi Loving hands TO battle the TEMPLES
i LOVING voices 10 speak good cheer. Loving
nps 70 read the comforting promises of Jesus,
III our last dreadful war men cost tbe can
non men fashioned the musketry: men crie-I
70 the hosts: Forward, marchw men hurIed
lnelr Dattallons on the sharp edges of the
enemy. crying: "Chargel charge % Int yyop,aS,
scraped the lint; woman administered the
coruialsi woman watched bv the divine,
couch' woman wrote the last message to the
nome circle; woman wept at the solitary
burial attended by herself and four mon yvitI
spade We greeted the general home
with brass bands, and triumphal arches
ana wild huzzas; but the story Is too Good 10
DC written anywhere, save in the chronicles
OF heaven of Mrs Brady, who came down
hominy; of Annie Ross. i'm the cooper sbon
hospital; OF Nj; rs ret Breckenridge who came
TO men who ad been for weeks with their
wounds undreSsed-SOme of them frozen 70
the ground ana when she turned them over
those that had an arm left waved IL and GIled
the air with their "hurrah - OF Mrs Hodoe
VINO came from Chicago with blankets and
with pillows, until the men shouted. ,VThrea
cheers for the Christian Commission
Tod bless the women at homo -
then sitting down to take the 1O'I last
message; Tell my wife not 70 f,et
about me, but to meet me i'm heaven tell her.
to train up the boys whom we have love / 90
Wen tel her we shall meet again i'm the good
anu .9I gen hef 20 bear my loss like the Chris
tian Witc OF a Christian soldier;n and of Mrs
shelton, into whose face the convalescent
soldier looked and said: "Your cranes
sI.. cologne, cured me" Men did
their work with shot and shell, and carbine
and howltler: women did their yyorl, VIII
socks, and slippers, and bandages. and warm
drinks, and Scripture texts, and gentle stroE
ings OF the hot temples, and stories of that
iand where they never have any pain. Men
h sIi;uL uGwh oyer the wounded and said: "On
down over the wounded and said: "Iybere
are YOU hurti What nice thinV can I mako
for you to eat' What makes YOU cryFi To
nght, while we men are sound asleep In orr
Us, IneIIe WIN be light in yonder loft;
th"rs VIII be grooming down that dark alley:
there will bo cries OF distress in that cellar.
Men VIII sleep and women will watch
again, woman has a superlative right to
take care Of the poor There are hundreds
md thousands OF them all over tho land
There is a kind Of work that men cannot do
Tor the poor. Here comes a group of little bare
loot children 10 the door Of the Dorcas Socie-
~. iney nCed 20 be clothed and provided for
which OF these directors Of banks would
"
that little girl dressi Which Of these mas
culiue hands could nc "a hat 10 that liftio
girls head Which OF tho wise men
would know how 30 Tie on new pair OF
shoesi Man sometimes gives his charity
m a rough way, and 10 falls like the fruit
OF tree in the e1st which fruit cctnos
down so heavily TINT 10 breaks the skull
oi ihe man who U.s. trying 30 gather TO- But
woman glides SO softly into the house Of dos
Tuition, and finds out an the sorrows of the
pace, and puts 50 quietly the donation on the
tabie' That nli the family come out on tho
front steps as she departs expecting that
from under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings and go right up toward heaven from
whence she seems 10 have como io,gn
VIE christian young woman if you
would make yourself happy and win
the blessings Of Christ go ont among
tho destitute a loaf Of bread or n bundle of
SOCKS may make n homcly load 10 carry. but
ths angels OF God viii come ont to watch
ana the Lord Almighty viii give bis mes
p tuSef unrt+ charge saying. Clock inter
thaJ woman. Canopy har with your WING.
and shelter her from oll harm" and while
you arc seated iu Che house Of dcstitut,on and
suffering, the little ones around tho room
viii whisper. who is she3 Amt she beau
tllult' ana f You wiI lislon right sharply Won
Will hear dripping down through the Ieakv
Ippii ana rolling over the rotten stairs. the
anse. chant that shook Bethlehem. "GIory
~ Tod in tho highest. and on earth
inc why "a Christian woman p0iny down
among the hauuts OF iuiquitv on "a Christian
GRAND never meets with any iudiyuItvy 1
STOOD boo the chapel OF Helen Chalmers the
~ IuEhterof tho celebrated DR. Chalmers iu
tle most HD1uI0ued part of tho cifv